The membership of the TPF board for 2018

We have a new president! Long-time board member Larry Hochhaus has agreed to be the new TPF President, starting in January 2018. We also have a new vice president! Newcomer Christopher Radebaugh started as VP at the end of February 2018.

We also have two new members on the Steering Ctee. 1. Susan Singh joined us early in January 2018; 2. and Daniel Yount re-joined the Steering Cttee, after some extended time away from it.

We have the following updated list for our Steering Committee.

TPF Steering Committee for 2018 (the "board of directors", listed here roughly in order of seniority)

L. Hochhaus, TPF President, Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS)

J. LeViness, Green Party (Okla) and Liaison for Peace House Tulsa @ CoRUU

J. MacMahon, Green Country Greens (eastern Okla)

C. Reynolds, past TPF Vice President 2009-2011, Veterans for Peace, & co-founder of TPF as a non-profit in Oklahoma

As a collective, the TPF executive and steering committee are committed to seeking consensus, as far as possible, in all our decision-making on behalf of the Fellowship. Grassroots participation at our monthly meetings is actively encouraged!

Reminder: Any member of the Steering Cttee or any member of the non-voting Advisors group who is unable to attend the TPF meeting in person can voice their approval or concerns about an agenda item via the listserv dedicated to TPF internal correspondence, by sending a message to tpfsteeringcom@yahoogroups.com (Membership on the listserv is by invitation only.)

In addition to the Steering Committee (the Board), we have a group of non-voting advisors and wisdom-keepers. For 2018, the Advisory Group (honorary positions, TPF emeritii and patrons) consists of the following people:

Bryan W. Cheek, former TPF Vice-President 2011-2012, and former member of the TPF SteeringCttee; he was a member of TPF since 2003. He died 17th March 2018.

Clark Inkaniswh, Native American Church, former TPF SteeringCttee member 2009-2011, and former TPF Advisor, 2012-2015, in Tulsa, Okla. He died 23rd November 2015. A funeral service was held in Broken Arrow, 2nd Dec 2015. An active board member, he gave the keynote address, Dec 2012, at our 10-year landmark celebration.

Armin Saeger, former TPF advisor from Green Country Quakers, Tulsa OK, died 28th April 2012. He was a WWII Conscientious Objector (C.O.), and the author of an autobiography entitled Sowing My Quaker Oats (2010). Obituary online.

Harry Allison, former TPF advisor. He died in 2008.

Our activism is undertaken to a degree under the following larger regional and national organizations.

In other words, how is TPF structured? We are a grassroots, bottom-up, civic-sector organization, organized as a collective. We are governed by an entirely volunteer Steering Committee, equivalent to a Board of Directors, including three volunteer officers (President, Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer). The Steering Committee consists of the nine or ten most active and engaged members of the Fellowship, selected annually. We follow an internal by-law on consensus decision making.We also have a non-voting Advisory Group, consisting of former board members, our financial supporters, and wisdom keepers.There are various sub-committees or task forces with specific peace-related missions, organized by issue, which you can join. We are a registered non-profit.

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